How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNReligion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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